I used to spend a lot of time in the passenger seat of helicopters for work. Literally every time I got into a bird with a new pilot, I’d ask them to do a barrel roll. I learned a lot about the machines in their explanations as to why it was a bad idea, including interesting tidbits about the modifications to a red bull chopper in order to pull off the stunt (custom fixed rotor head, in case it matters). But it broke the ice with the pilots, and a few of them pulled off a few neat, but less dangerous, tricks.
My favourite probably dangerous trick was flying towards a hill and pulling up at the last moment, sort of bounding off your own ground effect wave (I don’t know the proper jargon for this manoeuvre).
I used to spend a lot of time in the passenger seat of helicopters for work. Literally every time I got into a bird with a new pilot, I’d ask them to do a barrel roll. I learned a lot about the machines in their explanations as to why it was a bad idea, including interesting tidbits about the modifications to a red bull chopper in order to pull off the stunt (custom fixed rotor head, in case it matters). But it broke the ice with the pilots, and a few of them pulled off a few neat, but less dangerous, tricks.
My favourite probably dangerous trick was flying towards a hill and pulling up at the last moment, sort of bounding off your own ground effect wave (I don’t know the proper jargon for this manoeuvre).
Keep trying Calvin!
Had to think for a moment to understand what you meant by the trick at first, but that sounds super cool!!
Thanks for sharing 😊